If there was ever a good reason to shovel antihistamines down your gullet before pressing play, the music of two hockey-playing, caravan-dwelling sisters who recorded their EP in a stable might be it. But before your eyes start to water, Hockeysmith are not about to usher in a new wave of faux-pastoral whimsy. Nor are they rich kids burning through their allowances under the ruse of "finding themselves" in the Cornish wilderness. Hockeysmith manage to distil isolation into noirish electropop, where siren-pure vocals are submerged in crunched up, distorted guitars and swarms of creepy, atonal synth. It's anything but prissy.

Not too long ago, however, Bristol natives Georgie (guitar) and Annie (keyboards) seemed destined for a life in shinpads and skorts. Georgie, a die-hard Nirvana fan, was first to ditch her hockey stick for an axe. Annie, a classical pianist and Destiny's Child and Christina Aguilera fangirl, got as far as the England Under 21s squad though and won a hockey scholarship to the University of Connecticut before music won out.

They're also a band whose surroundings seem to have seeped into their sounds. To make their music, the Hockeysmiths first decamped to an isolated vicarage in south Wales where the eeriness of the place inspired a dark undercurrent in their tracks. Then the sisters bought a caravan near Falmouth for the price of a month's rent in London, ripping out the breakfast bar to make way for surround-sound speakers, the empty fields absorbing endless beat-making experiments. With no Wi-Fi or any phone signal, the pair would stay late after cleaning shifts at a local restaurant to gen up on YouTube music-production tutorials.

Eventually, their campsite's landlord let them turn his stables into a studio and soon they had two tracks that they self-released on their label, Backabelly. They also found an empty fish factory to test those songs out live and began their word-of-mouth Hockey Nights, free parties attended by art students and a curious local called Aphex Twin.

They've played only three shows in what you might call "proper" venues so far but the buzz is already building, with an EP forthcoming on Double Denim and their first headline show this week. Here's hoping that, as they leave the flooded plains of the south-west behind for that other kind of wild in east London, they hold on to the untamed spirit that sets them apart.